San Esteban de Gormaz No. 1

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes [http://www.arquivoltas.com/13-Soria/01-Gormaz2.htm], August 2007

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2017 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior - south porch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2008 by Rafael Jiménez [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portico_de_San_Miguel_de_Gormaz.jpg] [accessed 18 April 2014]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the Iglesia de San Miguel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2008 by Rafael Jiménez [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_miguel_de_san_esteban.jpg] [accessed 18 April 2014]

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view of church interior - east end - painting - detail

Scene Description: Described in the entry for this church in Arteguias [https://www.arteguias.com/ermita/sanmiguelgormaz.htm] [accessed 30 December 2018]: "La bóveda de medio cañón de la cabecera tiene pintado a un gran Maiestas Domini rodeado por la mandorla y a su vez ésta por numerosos personajes alados que se piensa pueden ser los cuatro evangelistas y los arcángeles San Miguel y San Gabriel, además de otros ángeles [...] En los muros de la cabecera, en su parte baja, está representados los veinticuatro ancianos del Apocalipsis."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2017 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church interior - east end - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2017 by Mikel Unanue

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view of context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2017 by Mikel Unanue

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes [http://www.arquivoltas.com/13-Soria/01-Gormaz2.htm], August 2007

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view of font

Scene Description: the font raised off the ground on a metal bracket

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2013 by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 5 July 2013)

view of font

Scene Description: the font raised off the ground on a metal bracket

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2013 by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 5 July 2013)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2017 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 28 December 2018)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2017 by Mikel Unanue

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view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes [http://www.arquivoltas.com/13-Soria/01-Gormaz2.htm], August 2007

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view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2017 by Mikel Unanue

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2017 by Mikel Unanue

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06805GOR

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista [orig. from the Ermita de San Miguel]

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Calle Convento, 4, 42330 San Esteban de Gormaz, Soria, Spain -- Tel.: +34 975 35 00 49

Country Name: Spain

Location: Soria, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located on the SO160, 15 km SE of El Burgo de Osma [NB: coordinates given are for San Miguel's church]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Soria

Font Location in Church: The font is now in the parish church

Date: ca. 1010?

Century and Period: 7th - 12th century, Early Christian? / Visigothic? / Romanesque?

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Antonio García Omedes, of www.romanicoaragones.com, and www.arquivoltas.com, to Cristina Sanchez, and to Mikel Unanue, for their photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

García de Castro Valdés (2000) notes medieval quadrangular fonts in Spain at Beloncio, Bullaso, San Isidoro de Leon, Villanueva de Valdecarzana (suggested date in the 11th century); Armentia, Bustasur, Dosante, Gormaz, Quintanillabon, Rosales, Santillan del Agua, Soto de Bureba (suggested date in the 12th or 13th century); Ripodas and Turrillas (suggested date in the 13th century). The Enciclopedia del Románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) reports square fonts in Castilla-Leon at: Olvega and Gormaz (Soria prov.); Bustillo de Santullan and Villaverde de la Pena (Palencia prov.) Rosales, Quintanillabon, Grisalena, Dosante, Valluercanes, Castrovido, Cernegula, Santillan del Agua, , Bortedo, Llano de Bureba, Castil de Lences and Castrillo de Rio Pisuerga (Burgos prov.); last, but certainly not least, is the font of the Colegiata de San Isidoro in Leon capital. The web site of Castillos de Soria [www.castillosdesoria.com] describes an old baptismal font from the 7th-century Ermita de San Miguel; this font was later moved to the parish church of Gormaz. The web site of the Asociación Tierras Sorianas del Cid [www.tierrasdelcid.es] describes the font now at the parish church as "a strange and original baptismal font that could be dated probably to before the 11th century; like those of the paleo-Christian period, it is a square block of stone with the inside carved in the shape of a Greek cross" [our translation]. The illustration in this source shows the font: the sides of the inner basin are vertical. The Guía turística del sur de Soria (2003) suggests also an Early Christian association, but other sources describe this font as Visigothic, which would match the date of the original church [ermita de San Miguel]. Noted and illustrated in Garcia Omedes [www.arquivoltas.com/13-Soria/01-Gormaz2.htm] [accessed 25 April 2010]. Noted in García Gómez (2007). The quadrangular basin is roughly carved and has no other decoration than a groove along the outer part of the lower sides; the inside well of the basin is cruciform, with vertical sides; the bottom of the inner well has a slight round depression at the centre of which is the drain-hole; the basin is raised on a squat cylindrical base. The font has been excavated and taken out of the ground; it now stands 'floating' on a metal bracket, which permits to see the total volume of the font, including the cylindrical part that may have been originally buried in the ground.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.576773, -3.206419

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 34′ 36.38″ N, 3° 12′ 23.11″ W

UTM: 30T 482792 4602808

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: cruciform

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: unlined

REFERENCES

Guía turística del sur de Soria [...], Soria: Diputación Provincial de Soria, 2003

García Gómez, Francisco José, "Pilas bautismales románicas en la provincia de Soria", 57, 101, Celtiberia, 2007, pp. [315]-358; r["References"]

García de Castro Valdés, César, "Nuevas piezas de arqueología cristiana altomedieval en Asturias", 7 (2000), Revista de Arqueología del Área de Historia Medieval, 2000, pp. [201]-218; r["References"]

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967